Countries
China, Nepal
  
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Israel, Mauritius
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
  
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Konkani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
बाय (Bāya)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Maharashtrian Konkani
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Kokan
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
2,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Varhadi
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Vidarbha
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
7,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Khandeshi
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Khandesh
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
71.00 million
  
25
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
68.00 million
  
16
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
3.00 million
  
32
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
मराठी (marāṭhī)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
  
French Name
tibétain
  
marathe
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Marathi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Marathi people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
10th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Maharashtri Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Marathi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
mr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
mar
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
mar
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
mar
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
mara1378
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
omr
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available